print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.763
- Title
- Object: Vûe de la ville de Lausanne
- Description
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Landscape with a view of Lake Geneva and Lausanne in the distance; with two cows and a couple in the foreground.
Etching and aquatint with hand colouring, within wash border
- Production date
- 1800 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 445 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 642 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression of this print see 1958,0712.729
This print belongs to a second edition by Birmann & Fils made between 1823 and 1836.
Variation of a print etched by G. Lory in 1792, see: Marie-Louise Schaller, Annäherung an die Natur, Schweizer Kleinmeister in Bern 1750-1800, Bern 1990, Pg. 281 Nr.105.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BEQUEST, NONE OF THE PRINTS OR DRAWINGS BEQUEATHED BY R. W. LLOYD MAY BE LENT OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM (Registration Numbers 1958,0712.318 to 3149).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1958,0712.763
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 2211 (Lloyd Number)